Stumbling Stones Ste. Foy Straße 10

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Otto Fassbender, born 1898, humiliated/disenfranchised, dead 2 October 1935.
* Else Regina Fassbender née Feibelmann, born 1901, deported 1941 Minsk, murdered.
* Lothar Peter Fassbender, born 1924, fled 1937, England.
* Lotte Sally Fassbender, born 1925, fled 1939, England.
* Senta Fassbender, born 1928, fled 1939, England.

Background

Else Feibelman married Otto Fassbender, a merchant from Limburg, in 1922. Starting in 1923, they lived at this location (then called Marktstrasse 2a). They had three children – Lothar, Lotte, and Senta. After Otto died in 1935, Else took the children to Frankfurt and then sent them to England to live with an uncle – first son Lothar in 1937, then daughters Lotte and Senta via Kindertransport in 1939. Else herself was unable to escape the Nazis and was deported east to an unknown destination. Her children, who spent the rest of their lives in the U.K., concluded that she was killed in Trawniki in 1941.

These stolpersteine were installed in May 2017, sponsored by the Leo Sternberg School.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved victim’s with the name, year of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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